Topic: Chicana Studies, Central America,
Participants: Iris Ramirez, Ph.D. student in Chicana Studies UCLA
Broadcast Air Date: 10/18/19 Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
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Discussion Topics:– How do we tell our own stories? – Do Central America issues fit in a Chicana Studies program? – What are the multiple roads to college? -Why does the research literature stereotype immigrant families as non-education focused, when almost all immigrant family stress the importance of education? -What is the imposter syndrome? – The unaccompanied youth migrating from Central American want to go to college? – How de we talk about Central America differently from the way talk about Mexico? – Does the United States have a focus on Latinadad that is Mexico-centric? – When did the United States invade Central America? – What is the location of the three Mexicos? – What is Chicanismo? – Is Chicana Studies open to studies focusing on Central America? – What are the national forms of hegemony within Chicana studies? – When did the conversation regarding Central American first enter our families? – Does the United States assume every brown person is Mexican? -What is the relationship between US intervention in Central America and the exodus of people from Central America to the US. -How do we prepare for the politics of spaces? – What is the relationship between anti-Central American rhetoric and anti-immigrant rhetoric? – What are the mechanisms of solidarity?
